DHL Hybrid Solution for Bayer

DHL Global Mail takes care of the optical character recognition (OCR) of 1.4 million digitalized Bayer invoices from Europe. Our back office ensures that every invoice is processed.

DHL Global Mail collects the invoices at Bayer’s locations in Asia and transports them to their scan centers in Hong Kong and Shanghai, where the invoices are bar-coded and scanned.

The scanned invoices are hosted on a DHL Global Mail’s server and transferred to the Bayer ERP system every working day.

Customer Benefits

Increased transparency of their accounts payable process for all parties involved.

Fast availability of documents in their ERP system within 24 hours.

Increased their efficiency with 30% with one provider for their global OCR requirements offering a simplified process.

Reduction of handling costs with 50%.

Higher output quality due to reduction of error rate, less missing documents and a recognition rate of 95% of each defined data field.

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the field of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. The company’s products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. In fiscal 2011, Bayer employed 112,000 people and had sales of €36.5 billion.

Bayer Business Services is the Bayer Group’s global competence center for IT and business services. The focus is on services in the core areas of IT infrastructure and applications, procurement and logistics, human resources and management services, and finance and accounting. In 2011 Bayer Business Services employed a worldwide workforce of 6,400 employees and achieved sales of EUR 1,103 million.